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Is it just me or were the SEs hated far more before Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney? When Lucas owned Star Wars, everyone was saying “the evil Lucas is holding back the awesome OOT and shoving the awful SEs down our throats.” When Lucas sold to Disney, people switched to saying, “Disney wants to give us the awesome SEs but a small group of fans is trying to shove the awful OOT down our throats.”
There has always been a segment of the fandom that likes the SE’s. (Some have even gone out of their way to deride this site.) They don’t even want a world where both versions sit side by side and people can choose what to watch.
The general public is less aware of the situation, as the movies haven’t been referred to as Special Editions since 1997.
And this is why I slightly worry.
Who is actively - what’s the word - lobbying for this?
Save Star Wars has gone down - the general public know less and less - and nobody whatsoever mentions this at Lucasfilm any more.
Are we in danger that the quality of Harmy and other restorations is counter productive to Disney restoring it?
But then: look at the attention the recent Landis rumour got. The movie sites all picked it up, but so did some mainstream news sites, including Forbes…
I feel like the OUT is in a similar situation now to The Godfather and part II after Viacom quasi-bought DreamWorks. Coppola
asked his old friend Spielberg to put in a good word for restoring the first two films and Paramount gladly spent more than a million dollars on a state of the art cleanup job.
In a weirdly equal yet opposite way, it’s going to be the people creating new Star Wars content, people like Abrams and especially Johnson, who stand to make the biggest push in restoring the unaltered originals.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure Kennedy cares just as much about it, but she’s a little too close to George for it to not be at least a little awkward for her whenever someone brings it up.
What she and George should really be talking about is not only restoring the unaltereds (which, as we’ve discussed at length, he wouldn’t really have a say in anymore) but also finishing the SE. Maybe she could even get him to reconsider some of the changes he’s made. If that rumor about Han shooting first again is true, he already has.
